She's not fat... she's pregnant

Being pregnant has had it's funny moments. People really say the craziest things... just last week a student made a comment about the end of the year and I said "well Brendan, I won't be here" and he said why? Then somehow at 26 weeks pregnant I shocked him by telling him that I was pregnant?! I said "well Brendan, did you think I swallowed a soccer ball?" haha he must've thought so! Over Thanksgiving, we met our friends Steve and Helene Norris for coffee and Steve proceeded to introduce me to his brother as "not fat, just pregnant" haha A woman that I work with actually made 3 comments in one day about my growing bump! I don't really mind the comments, and they always make for funny stories later ;)

I did want to add some pictures of my growing bump for my friends and family that live far away that haven't seen me in the past few months. So here is your baby bump update:

21 weeks

22 weeks

24.5 weeks

26 weeks

Halloween

Aaron and I have been (what seems like) non-stop busy for the last 3 years. Because of this, we always miss our friends annual Halloween party. This year we finally were able to make it and got excited about brainstorming some costumes. Since I'm pregnant, we had a few less options, we decided to use the pregnancy for a costume idea. We decided on the lead roles from the movie JUNO. I dressed up as Juno MacDuff and Aaron was Paulie Bleeker. We got pretty close to looking like them (you can compare for yourself with the movie covor) haha we had a great time and were glad we could finally celebrate with friends!

here are a few pictures of our Halloween:

CAUTION: You are about to see a whole lot of my husband's thighs ;) haha

JUNO

my real life Paulie Bleeker

Juno

:)

fall fun

Last year at this time, I found this hilarious dog costume at Goodwill and thought for 99 cents I'd try to fit Marley into it... he didn't love it. haha I just found the dog costume while organizing a closet and decided to torture Kai with it before I sent it back to goodwill ;) I sure am glad these dogs love me and put up with my harassment :)

it's official... make that 3 windles...

On March 8, Aaron and I are due to have our first baby! We are so excited about our little one and can't wait for his/her arrival. Who am I kidding- Aaron is rooting boy all the way ;) Either way we are so thankful for God's amazing blessing to us and can't wait to share in the journey with our friends and family.

the morning we found out

our baby at 11 weeks

crazy, busy summer (june)

It seems like from the very day I got out of school in the end of June, Aaron and I have been running. Every weekend in July and August spoken for, vacations, grad classes, weddings, and church softball. We've had a very full summer, but have had plenty of fun too.


The last week in June we went on vacation with my beloved college roommate Natalie and her husband Josh. We went to the jersey shore and had more than our share of fun! They are such awesome friends- funny and laid back and it made vacation perfect! Nat and I did all the things together that the guys weren't interested in like biking on the boardwalk and getting up to see the sun rise. We gorged ourselves on all you can eat crabs, 28 inch pizzas, and of course (per Nat's request) ice cream every night :) It was precious time with friends that we don't get to spend nearly enough time with!

love her!

way too much to eat...



beach!

being studious...

can you tell it's 5 am?

biking... we got too close to hitting a large number of people on the boardwalk and decided that we should probably just take the streets back instead ;)

typical

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice cream guy

my love

crazy, busy summer (july)

We attended 3 (yes, 3!) weddings in the month of July. The fourth of July was spent celebrating Lauren and Nathan Eakin's wedding, the following weekend we roadtripped it out to Indiana University to celebrate with Nate and Amber Todd, and made our way to Scranton, PA the end of July for my great friend and fellow teacher Sara Lucarella's wedding. We are so excited for all of them and love them to death :)

lauren and nathan

nate and amber shakin it

my beautiful friend sara

July was also spent traveling all over the eastern United States. Aaron went to his college roommate Tommy's bachelor party in West Virginia, I traveled to Pittsburgh to celebrate my great friend Amy's bachelorette party, and I also went to Deep Creek, Maryland to reunite with my fellow Geneva Women's Soccer alumni.

GWS "NAIA" alum...

amy's bachelorette party

July also brought my nephews and sister to the eastern part of the state to hang out. We went swimming, watched "untle awin's" softball games, and went to the please touch museum in Philly. We had a fun week and miss the boys like always!

ethan and marley

please touch museum

the boys and untle awin

crazy, busy summer (august)

August was full of vacations... we went to Canada with Aaron's family. We had some great weather and enjoyed our time up there as usual. It was really nice seeing our Kewley cousins since they live in Virginia and Oklahoma! The dogs loved being in Canada because they were allowed off leash and were able to roam where they wanted. It was awesome just seeing them be dogs and made us feel bad when we had to leash them after we left! We left Canada a few days early and headed to my parent's cottage in Tionesta, PA. We were there during the Indian Festival and got to go to the parade and of course golfing. We feel so blessed to have such incredible families and cherish our time spent with them!

kai getting a stick and logan pretending to be just like him :)

aaron getting ready to take off from the dock

boo ya

love!

marley throughly enjoying the boat :)





logan throughly enjoying marley :)





boat ride at night

the windle fam

The end of August has brought soccer season and the start of rugby for Aaron. Soccer has been fun and exhausting. I am enjoying the opportunity to coach- it reminds me how much I miss soccer and playing! We also purchased an SUV!!! We bought a Honda Pilot and are loving all of the room, as opposed to our 2 little sedans. I know, I know, it's not very earth friendly, but I figure having a hybrid balances it out ;)

our new car!

After such a crazy, busy summer I feel more tired than refreshed, but it's okay because we had so much fun in all of it! I keep thinking that maybe, just maybe, life will slow down sometime soon :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

So today is Kristen's birthday, and I (Aaron) thought I would post a note here without Kristen knowing. I've never posted anything, but since Kristen's passwords are easy to remember I was able to get on here and do it!

For those of you who don't know, Kristen is 26 today. A lot has happened in a year. We now own 2 dogs instead of 1, she is a few credits short of her masters degree, she got the assistant varsity coaching job at Downingtown East High School, and she is leading a womens bible study.

Through it all Kristen has managed to keep up with doing things on a regular basis that I often times take for granted: She makes me dinner every night, she does all the grocery shopping (mostly because she doesn't trust me to do it, with good reason), she takes the dogs for an hour walk every night, even if she doesn't feel like it, and she puts up with all my crap (and still manages to laugh at me). Case in point:

Even though I am totally ruining this picture from our trip to the beach, she still laughs



So I just wanted to take a few minutes to remind her that she is appreciated, even though I don't always show it or say it, and let everyone else know what an amazing woman I am blessed to have married!

I am going to end with a few Bible verses that remind me of Kristen

Proverbs 12:4 "A wife of noble character is her husband's crown..."

Proverbs 19:14 "Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,but a prudent wife is from the LORD"

Proverbs 31:10 "A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTEN, I LOVE YOU!!!!

5k day

RUNNING... It has never been my favorite, more of a means to an end to be in shape for soccer; however, I had a bunch of friends that ran in the Pittsburgh marathon and was inspired to start running again. About a month ago, I found a 5k race near us and decided to do it. Unfortunately, within that month, I only ran a few times, and only ran 3 miles once. ha! I dragged Aaron to the 5k with me and my friend Ashleigh too! The goal was to finish the race without walking and hopefully do it in a decent time. The course was hard (compared to my flat loop at home) with a good part of it going uphill.

At one point during the race I was feeling pretty tired- you know, when your mind starts telling you just to walk. Well, I heard a conversation going on between two runners behind me. It was a man talking about the fact that he had a heart attack the year before and wasn't allowed to get his heart rate over 160. He then went on to discuss the fact that he was running 15 5k's this summer, one of which he ran on Friday. It was at that point that I decided there was no way this man who was on the brink of death the year before was going to beat me to the finish line. I mean, come on- I'm a 25 year old, former collegiate athlete?! It ended up being the motivation that I needed, and we finished out the race at a good pace. We finished in 30:30 which wasn't great, but we were just happy to finish, considering we haven't really ran much since college. I was seriously impressed with some of these runners. The winner was a man who did it in 15 minutes! All in all, it was fun to do. I might even do another one this summer, although, I think I might run a few more times before the next one... ;)

sisters

She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child. ~Barbara Alpert

My sisters and I are now spread all over the country, but I love them and value their friendships more than ever. I feel bad that people don't have sisters the way I do. Love you Erika and Kels!